Teaching can be a rewarding career, but it definitely comes with its fair share of stress. During the 3-hour workshop, educators will be given life changing tools needed to maintain a healthy lifestyle while managing school life. Valuing the power of collaboration, we will also provide strategies on how to have productive solution-oriented conversations to create a supportive workplace.

With these strategies, teachers will be empowered to collectively navigate the dilemmas of school life and ready to declare: "We Got This!"

As a teacher you probably have as many question as your students.  You'd be surprised to know your already have most of the answers.  Join other teachers to share, reflect and celebrate new ideas inspired by our own ingenuity, experience and expertise. So you too can declare, "We Got This".

At its core, peer observations consist of key components that can foster a culture of learning within your building. Learn how to effectively apply these key components that encourages teachers to become leaders of their learning.  When a school functions as a learning organization, where ongoing and continuous learning exist among the faculty, you create a haven for innovation and ingenuity to thrive. Come and explore ways your school culture can experience sustainable transformation that keeps teacher quality and student success on the cutting edge of excellence!

The secrets to success lie within you. In this session we will chat about our successes that have worked in the past and apply our collective prior knowledge to help solve present classroom problems and predicaments.  Come join me as we vent. pause. reflect. celebrate & reinvent -- ideas inspired by our own ingenuity, experience and expertise in effort to support the greater good. Walk away feeling … “ ’We’ Got This!”

The greatest impact to student learning is the teacher. It is important to value and cultivate the talent teachers' bring to the classroom.  Can the solution to our nation’s educational teacher quality woes rest in SHRD (Strategic Human Resource Development) processes and principles? If so, how does this concept penetrate the bureaucratic stipulations of K-12 education when implementation of SHRD in the corporate sector is likewise challenged? The objective of this session is to discuss current finding's from my study that links teacher development solutions around SHRD principles.

Come discover what is a learning organization and its benefits. Uncover key components of peer observations that can cultivate a culture of learning in your building. Learn how these components can initiate teachers to take ownership of their professional development; making teacher effectiveness a self-sustained process. See how your school's culture can become a place where the objective is learning and the outcomes are teacher quality and student success!

Discover how to enhance teacher quality by tapping into the resources right next door...your  colleagues. Explore researched based techniques, retrospective conversation, and clinical observation as way to have meaningful peer observation experiences. Learn how to use tools and techniques i.e. observational data instruments, listening and questioning skills, etc. as the foundation for dynamic learning conversations. Participants will quickly discover the benefits of professional collaboration as a means to enhance and strengthen their instructional practice to maximum the level of student success.